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Immigrant Religion

Immigrant Religion

Chapter:

(p.118)
Chapter 6 Immigrant Religion

Source:

Strangers No More

Author(s):

Richard Alba

Nancy Foner

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691161075.003.0006

This chapter describes how immigrant religion generally has become a more significant social divide, a greater challenge to integration, and a more common source of conflict with mainstream institutions and practices in Western Europe than in the United States. There are three main reasons for this. Of paramount importance are basic demographic facts. The religious backgrounds of immigrants in Western Europe and the United States are different, mostly Christian in the United States as compared to Western Europe, where a large proportion is Muslim. Muslims of immigrant origin in Western Europe also have a lower socioeconomic profile than those in the United States. Moreover, Western European native majorities have more trouble recognizing claims based on religion because they are more secular than religiously involved Americans.

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